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NOTE XXX. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OE HYRAX (HYRAX STAMPFLII) 

 FROM LIBERIA. 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



July 1886. 



In the P. Z. S. L. of the year 1852, p. 99, we find a 

 description of a new Hyrax from Fernando-Po by Fraser. 

 This new species, Hyrax dorsalis, is rather insufficiently 

 described and the figures (Plate XXXTII) have no value 

 at all. In the following year, 1853, Temminck published 

 his »Esquisses Zoologiques sur la Cote de Guinee" and des- 

 cribed a new species of Hyrax., H. sylvestris ; Temminck 

 was evidently not acquainted with Fraser's Hyrax, he only 

 knew Hyrax syriacus , capensis and arhoreus. Now I am 

 convinced that Temminck's species is the same as Fraser's 

 and although Temminck's description is very extensive and 

 clear, meanwhile this cannot be said of that of Fraser, the 

 latter having the priority of some months, the species in 

 question ought to be called H. dorsalis. 



In Temminck's paper however is a mistake born by the 

 fact that he had not a skull of an adult specimen. So he 

 writes: »le nombre des molaires aux deux machoires est 

 de six dans sylvestris ', dans arhoreus, ainsi que chez les 

 autres especes, I'etat normal est de sept partout." I have 

 removed the skull of an adult specimen, one of Temminck's 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMLuseum , Vol. "VIII. 



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